Starvin Larry

The Money Quote…

“The solution to the divide being created in this country between police and the citizens is an easy one. Police need to stop agreeing to enforce cruel and unjust laws and become actual good cops.”

Excerpt…

“Police brutality has become so rampant in this country that many people now commend the officers who stand by and watch these violent attacks, simply for not participating in the crimes committed by their brothers in blue.

The lengths to which some people will go to praise police when they deserve no praise, even when they deserve total condemnation, is simply astonishing. No matter how egregious the misconduct, there are hoards who will desperately grasp for excuses to proclaim such actions to be “understandable,” if not outright heroic. And let’s not forget the fundraisers that have been set up for multiple cold-blooded killer cops.

Then there are the incidents in which one or more cops are caught on video brutally victimizing some unarmed person who isn’t fighting back, while other officers just watch, push witnesses away or simply block their view. Police apologists will often resort to the bizarre argument of, “It’s just a few bad apples, I mean just look at those wonderful officers remaining calm!” It’s absurd when these individuals spout the line about “just a few bad apples,” as if the other officers passively observing misconduct without doing anything to stop it somehow earns them respect.

Refraining from brutalizing innocents, in and of itself, is not a sign of being brave and noble. In how many other professions do individuals receive praise simply for not doing damage? To some,all you need to do to be a “good cop” is to watch injustice happen without perpetrating it yourself.”

The whole Good Cop / Bad Cop question can be disposed of much more decisively. We need not enumerate what proportion of cops appears to be good or listen to someone’s anecdote about his uncle Charlie, an allegedly good cop.”

We need only consider the following:

(1) A cop’s job is to enforce the laws, all of them;
(2) Many of the laws are manifestly unjust, and some are even cruel and wicked;
(3) Therefore every cop has to agree to act as an enforcer for laws that are manifestly unjust or even cruel and wicked.

There are no good cops.

The solution to the divide being created in this country between police and the citizens is an easy one. Police need to stop agreeing to enforce cruel and unjust laws and become actual good cops.